Re: [DL] A question of Persuade...

[Napoleon48@aol.com]

Hmm, very interesting conversation...
My take...

Well, I do agree that less articulate players shouldn't get shafted, and I 
would allow just "I persuade him". But, I also make provisions for 
"Impossible rolls" just like "Easy Rolls". In every game that even tries to 
simulate reality in even the tiniest bit, there are automatic failures and 
automatic successes. Say, with a gunshot, if a player wants to fire his gun 
in the air and aim the path of the bullet to land on a target...that normally 
just won't happen.(from what I know about guns) Its just not possible to arc 
a bullet onto a target. Automatic failure.
If he's aiming at a moving target, he'd roll to see success\fail etc. If it 
was an immobile target, lying there, he'd get an automatic success.(provided 
nothing else effects his shot, if he's really drunk he'd have to roll, for 
example.) Now, I have always interpreted it that Impossible\Possible\Easy 
differances occur in social skills just like with all other skills. Now, I 
would say that a manacled prisoner, known to be working for a enemy 
governments and a  very dangerous monster, being taken to a special holding 
area for containment, would not be able to ask an Agent guarding him state 
secrets and expect him to answer truthfully, no matter how high is persuade 
roll is.
In other situations, he could definetly roll. if, in Ghoull's example, he had 
a way to make the Agent let down his guard, well yes, he could try it.